Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences

Research

Elizabeth Bogdan-Lovis' interests focus on the political economy of U.S. medicalized childbirth and the emerging paradigm of evidence-based medicine. From an analysis of women’s agency in childbirth "choice", she considers evidence-based patient choice. Key are those macro-level political, social, and economic forces that define and frame the slate of individual clinical care options, and which covertly and overtly shape the general appeal and availability of patient choice.

Her current work also focuses on the recent rapid integration of evidence-based medicine into medical education curricula and clinical practice - observing in particular, how such information interfaces with the traditional construction and flow of medical authority.